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Industry Moves: Sony Music's Hesse, Sky's Jonesco, Capgemini, RBI, O2
-- Bertelsmann: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music's global digital head Thomas Hesse is leaving to join Bertelsmann in February, tasked with its digita……
Read MoreSony’s Hesse More Positive on Spotify’s US Chances
At the Digital Music Forum East in New York today, Thomas Hesse, President of Global Digital Bus., US Sales & Corp. Strategy at Sony (NYSE:……
Read MoreVevo Not Global Until 2010, Strains On First Day
Music labels' YouTube-powered music video site Vevo may have had a glitzy launch in New York on Tuesday - but on Wednesday many who hit the……
Read MoreGoogle’s Music Search Will Be Wrapped Up With MySpace Branding
At the famed Capitol Records building in Hollywood, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) officially unveiled its OneBox music search service. First news tidb……
Read MoreInterview: RCA/Jive’s Sean Rosenberg: Labels Are The Scapegoat For Mobile Music’s Woes
So why are mobile music -- and digital music startups overall, for that matter -- having such a hard time turning hype into real revenues? T……
Read MoreEarnings: Sony Down On Falling Gadget Sales, High Yen
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has announced a loss for the third consecutive quarter, two months after posting its first full-year loss in 14 years. The……
Read MoreImeem's New Challenge
Can music-oriented social-networking site Imeem get consumers to pay to get music on their cell phones that they could otherwise listen to f……
Read MoreWMG, Sony And Others Sell Their Russian Online Music Distributor To Ru-Net II
Russian digital investment company ru-Net II has bought online music and film distribution platform Digital Access from joint owners includi……
Read MoreUMG-Sony Music JV Total Music Shuts Down
Two-year old Total Music has closed up shop, Billboard.biz reports TechCrunch confirmed. The causes? Billboard.biz, citing multiple "directl……
Read MoreMobile Content Bits: Verizon Adds Video; Sony Uses Kyte; Flurry Analytics; AT&T On Facebook; Abphone
-- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) adds content to V Cast: Verizon Wireless said today that it is adding a host of content to its V Cast Video, including……
Read MoreMicrosoft Launching Mobile Music Downloads In UK, Tracks Are DRM-Protected
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has launched a UK mobile music download platform offering more than one million tracks and 10,000 videos from Sony (N……
Read MoreCarriers Find New Ways To Wall Off Content, This Time Using The Memory Card
Carriers have found a new way of dangling content in front of consumers, but with all the same strings attached as the original "walled gard……
Read More@ CES: Moms Part Of Early Adopters For Nokia’s Comes With Music Service
Early results from Nokia's Comes With Music service are showing that one of the more surprising demographics that are adopting the service a……
Read MoreHow The Big Mobile Stories Of 2008 Will Play Out In The New Year
This year was somewhat an anomaly for the wireless industry. A lot of things got done: the impossible of mergers closed; new phones launched……
Read MoreDada Entertainment Targets Impulse Buyers With Transactional Ad Banners
Dada Entertainment, the joint venture between Italian content provider Dada and record label Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, has launched what they…
Read MoreMobile Content Bits: Nokia’s Big Traffic Plans; Zed Ringtones On Alltel; Sega Mobile; Mobile Billing
-- Nokia (NYSE: NOK) launches traffic program: Nokia has launched a public pilot program out of its Silicon Valley-based research center to……
Read MoreThumbplay Launches Full-Track Music Store
Thumbplay has launched a full-track music store for mobile phones with a catalog of 1.5 million songs. With DRM-free tracks from Universal,……
Read MorePlay.com Steps Up Music Download Battle With 3 Million DRM-free Tracks From All Four Majors
Play.com has signed up with all four major music labels to offer more than 3 million DRM-free tracks on its PlayDigital music download site,……
Read MoreAOL’s Platform-A Promotes Oasis Album for Sony BMG
One week into its life as a fully-fledged, all-singing ad network, AOL's (NYSE: TWX) (NYSE:TWX) Platform-A has secured a big-name client in……
Read MoreUniversal Music Group Joins Dada; Promoting Latin Artists On Spanish-Language Flycell
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Read MoreSony Has It All Now: Acquisition Of Bertelsmann’s 50 Percent Stake In Sony BMG Done, BMG Dropped
The second-largest record company in the world is now all Sony…
Read MoreUnlimited Music Service Battle Heats Up; Vodafone Launches In Australia
The battle and gamble over unlimited music services has arrived. Once Nokia (NYSE: NOK) came out of the gate last December with its Comes Wi……
Read MoreSony Ericsson’s Unlimited Music Service May Come Next Week
More details are emerging about Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson's (NSDQ: ERIC) unlimited music service, which sounds a lot like Nokia's (NYSE: NOK……
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